Cast the Engorgio Charm and Grow Your Back with These Row Variations When it comes to building an impressive, head-turning physique, training your back is crucial. A big back not only makes you look larger,…
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What I Learned Getting Ready for My First Photo Shoot
I wasn’t going to do it. This year I was going to skip what most dudes do every single Spring: get shredded for summer. During The Great Bulk of 2015, I’d eaten close to 60…
Build Glutes without Squats and Deadlifts
Pure American Horse Power A few months before I turned 16, my father took me to look at a few used cars. He’d found what he thought would be suitable, a used burgundy 1996 Toyota…
3 Astonishing Hardcore Planks That Make You Feel Weak
Level Up Your Planks Planks are a great core exercise. They challenge your stability, endurance, and will improve your strength. Not only your abs, but your lower back, butt, legs, shoulders, and arms. No…
What is the Most Accurate Way to Measure Body Fat?
Most people gauge their weight loss success with the bathroom scale. Step up, stand still, and boom instant feedback. However, your common household scale is about as reliable as a drunk plastic surgeon at Mardi Gras.
Scale weight can fluctuate throughout the day depending on numerous variables and they also do not provide any measurement of how much body fat you actually have.
There are a few ways to measure body fat specifically for those who are trying to reach a certain level of “leanness.”
Deload to Reload: A Tale of Two Deloads
Your body does not make its gains from all the barbell crushing you do in the gym. Your gains are made when you rest and give your body time to recover. Thus the Law of Supercompensation.
Put it In Reverse: A Reverse Diet Experiment
In a nutshell, a reverse diet is a protocol where you slowly add calories back into your diet after you have been in a long period of caloric restriction.
Instead of dropping an atomic bomb of calories into your system and expanding like a mushroom cloud of fat and water retention post diet, a reverse diet Jedi mind tricks your body into accepting the increased calories.
The Holy Grail of Weight Loss
The “magic” food question is among the top five questions I am asked as a fitness coach. Everyone is looking for that one food that “Alakazam” and “poof” makes all the fat disappear off their back, abs, and arms overnight.
Weekly, maybe even daily, we are bombarded with ads or news stories covering some new supplement or exotic food that is the Holy Grail of fat loss.